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by bakuninsbart
1217 days ago
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Calling everything a lie is certainly wrong, but glossing over biases in publications like Reuters is also a big mistake. Fact-based reporting can still communicate a wrong picture by deciding what and how much to report on something, and how the tone is set. To give a random example of this, in 2020 Australian soldiers were caught murdering and torturing Afghanis. In a "gloaty" response, the Chinese foreign minister retweeted a caricature on the topic made by a Chinese artist. [0] From what I could find, Reuters wrote 3 articles on the topic of war crimes committed by Australian forces, with a very balanced and careful tone [1], and at least 8 articles on the tweet, consistently calling the caricature a "fake image" while not even showing the picture. Not only is there an obvious association between "fake image" and "fake news", apparently twitter drama was also deemed more important than the actual investigation into war crimes. [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999917/China-attac... [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence/austral... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia... |
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